Yeah I was about to say someone was not in the job market in the Great recession. I applied to something like 250 jobs. Most of them required accounts with the company job portal. You had to upload your resume and enter all the info again manually (at least now AI reads your resume and attempts to fill it out for you in some cases). There were always a few screening questions that often resulted in an automatic rejection because you needed 5 years of experience to get a new grad entry level position. Then after a few weeks of waiting if you weren't auto-rejected, you had about a 50-50 shot of being ghosted, and if you weren't ghosted you had about a 50-50 shot of a personal rejection or an interview.
Like other than zoom not being a thing, 2010 was similar or worse than today
Mine was 2015 after grad school. By then it was lots of applications optimized to make sure it fit the specific job description. Many wanted the equivalent of a cover letter.
There was a quick discussion with HR. Then most interviews were several hours split between 4-5 separate people. I have a PhD, so a couple even had me present my research to a larger group after the interviews.
Technically they could have skype (aka zoom) interviews in 2010, they just werent mainstream. But yeah in the 2000s and before they flew you out and housed you for any job requiring a degree.
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